Example sentences of "[vb base] away [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want away from the crowd try the upstairs restaurant . |
| 2 | I 'm stumbling backwards , almost falling ; I have to turn to stop myself tripping and the turn becomes a run and I ca n't stop myself , I just have to escape ; I race away through the woods , tears burning on my face , sobbing hysterically , the breath whistling and whooping in and out of me , hot and desperate and livid in my throat ; ferns whip at my legs and branches lash at my face . |
| 3 | When at last the waves sluice over them , each shakes her body convulsively so that the brown eggs swill away in the water and , with a touching gesture of apparent exultation , lifts her claws above her head as if waving a salute . |
| 4 | Long before an enemy could get near enough to distinguish any glint of arms , the whole company could fold their belongings and slip away into the mountains at their back . |
| 5 | An hour later , Tracy and Miss Ludlow helped him secretly slip away from the hospital to spend two days in a secluded Miami retreat soaking up the sun before returning to Newmarket . |
| 6 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 7 | As you catch a wave and accelerate down its face you vigorously steer away from the wind . |
| 8 | And first , they waited for the outsiders to go , and for the sleepy children to slip off , melt away through the trees . |
| 9 | Out of India : The snow-wreaths melt away in the heat of battle |
| 10 | Allegations about racial harassment simmer away in the background , unhelped by the tiny number of non-whites in police forces up and down the country . |
| 11 | They tend away from the school mentality . |
| 12 | By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs . |
| 13 | Erm it will react with the aluminium , eat away at the aluminium . |
| 14 | The locals consisted of the party of Sloanes Molly had seen at Nancy Leadbetter 's and another English family with two teenage sons whom Haverford , loudly and explicitly , urged his eldest grand-daughter to ‘ get off with ’ or ‘ drag away to the disco ’ , although he did n't suggest where a disco might be found in Mondano . |
| 15 | Night Goblins have become so accustomed to the dark that when they come out into the open they prefer to move around at night and hide away during the day . |
| 16 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 17 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 18 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 19 | Never leave objects on the floor of the kitchen , such as shoes or dustpans , that may trip you up as you back away from the sink or cooker . |
| 20 | Push away from the wall as you jump |
| 21 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 22 | A few moments later Merrill heard his car start , then roar away into the night . |
| 23 | His blow sends me to my right , and I slide with it , fast , and dive away to the floor . |
| 24 | Chinese , Indians and Malays puff away to the delight of cigarette manufacturers . |
| 25 | I ease away from the crowd along the railing , wondering where she will be . |
| 26 | The further you climb away from the town centre , the more alive the custom is . |
| 27 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 28 | Rory watched Lewis walk away along the beach . |
| 29 | And , by giving him all the best lines ( ‘ Yo , District Attorney 's Club , sucker ’ ) and using him sparingly , Mulcahy , and Silver allow Ice to hijack the three or four scenes in which he appears and walk away with the film single-handedly . |
| 30 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |